The Lies of Wayne LaPierre

Every time I write about this country's strange infatuation with its shootin' 'arns, I get at least one response from someone claiming to represent the thousands/millions of "responsible gun-owners" who never would think, say, of popping some black kid for the crime of carrying snack food in a neighborhood where your fears tell you the kid doesn't belong. Okay, fine. I even buy that. But when are the "responsible gun-owners" in the NRA going rise up as one and point out that the public face of their national organization is a lunatic?

"Sotomayor, Kagan, Fast & Furious, the United Nations, executive orders. Those are the facts we face today... President Obama and his cohorts, yeah, they're going to deny their conspiracy to fool gun owners. Some in the liberal media, they are already probably blogging about it. But we don't care because the lying, conniving Obama crowd can kiss our Constitution!"

And who stole the damn strawberries, anyway?

This is a great big old plate of paranoid crackers, bananas, and nuts. There is no case in which either Justice Sotomayor or Justice Kagan can rule. The UN is not coming for your guns, either. Whatever its original intent, wasn't the whole problem with Fast And Furious that too many people got guns? Shouldn't the NRA be celebrating the free market implications of that? And executive orders? What? No FEMA camps?

Look, Nutsy Fagin. Your side won. Gun control is as dead in this country as James Garfield. Out in the states, your side is running wild, passing laws that are working very quickly toward the day when everybody can carry a gun anywhere they want, and can pretty much discharge it on a whim. Presidents get approximately three months to govern in a second term before everybody starts running for president again and decides, en masse, to ignore the incumbent. If President Obama hasn't rounded y'all up by next April, I'd say you were home free.

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